246 research outputs found
Giulia Veronica Varisco
No full textThe headword explains the biography and the contribution of the author Giulia Varisco to the children's literatur
Correction to: Safety and Psychological Outcomes of Tandem t:Slim X2 Insulin Pump with Control-IQ Technology in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: A Systematic Review
No full textThe second author name was incorrectly published as Giula Maria Smylie. The correct name is Giulia Marie Smylie. The original article has been corrected
Giuseppe Maria Soli in palazzo Barberini a Roma
No full textThe inventory of goods owned by Prince Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra, who had married Cornelia Costanza Barberini in 1728, contains a reference to Giuseppe Maria Soli as the author of a canvas in the alcove of the second-floor apartment in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. This makes it possible to reconstruct Soli’s hitherto unpublished activity there, and he is credited with the authorship of the six canvases in the salone of the apartment and the decoration of the gabinetto dei ritratti. Bearing in mind that Soli was in Rome between 1770 and 1784, and that scholarship indicates that work on the palazzo was completed by 1770, a new chronology is put forward – the 1770s – thus also providing a context for the precocious taste in Neoclassicism which has been recognised here, precisely in the decoration of the gabinetto
Why can spontaneous intracranial hypotension cause behavioral changes? A case report and multimodality neuroimaging comparison with frontotemporal dementia
No full textFrontotemporal Brain Sagging Syndrome (FBSS) is a rare condition characterized by the presence of spontaneous intracranial hypotension associated with behavioural disturbances mimicking the behavioural variant of Frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). It has been suggested that behavioural symptoms are caused by damage to the connectivity of the frontal lobes due to the brain sagging. However, no studies have directly explored brain connectivity in patients with FBSS. Here, we report a new case of FBSS with persistent behavioural disturbances, whom we compared to 20 patients with bvFTD and to 13 cognitively healthy controls using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). We explored differences related to grey matter (GM) volume with voxel-based morphometry, functional connectivity with seed-based analysis, and white matter (WM) microstructural integrity with tract-based spatial statistics. We found that the FBSS patient, like the controls, had greater GM volume relative to the bvFTD patients. Moreover, the FBSS patient had greater functional connectivity from a left inferior frontal gyrus seed than both the bvFTD patients and healthy controls groups in dorsolateral frontal areas. Like the bvFTD group the FBSS patient had decreased WM integrity relative to the controls, especially in the posterior part of the corpus callosum, and the magnitude of these abnormalities correlated with measures of apathy across the FBSS and bvFTD patients. Our results suggest that behavioural changes associated with SIH are mainly due to altered WM connectivity
Re-writing otherness: Jack London photographer
No full textThis paper aims to analyze the relationship between writing, photography and the representation of otherness in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss (1903) and The Cruise of the Snark (1911), the only works illustrated by his own photographs. The first is the report of a six-weeks stay in the East End of London, where he lived with the poor and documented their condition; the second retraces a boat trip in the South Pacific Islands, where he witnessed the effects of colonialism. The purpose is to shed light on London’s unconventional approach towards otherness, as well as on the role of intermediality in these works, ascribable to the genre of phototexts. In stark contrast to the common Western representation of poor and non-white people, the author re-writes their stories in a hybrid transposition on the edge between words and images
"In the Heart of the South: Travels and Narratives by Maria Brandon Albini (1904-1995)"
No full textreservedQuesta tesi esplora la vita e le opere di Maria Brandon Albini, una scrittrice italiana naturalizzata francese nota per i suoi diari di viaggio. Comincia con una panoramica dettagliata della sua vita, esplorando i principali eventi e il contesto storico-culturale in cui ha vissuto. Successivamente, la tesi esamina i suoi due libri tradotti in italiano, "Calabria" e "Viaggio nel Salento" esaminando il contenuto e lo stile delle opere per comprendere il modo in cui l'autrice rappresenta le regioni del sud Italia. Infine, si riflette sulla letteratura di viaggio e si propone un itinerario turistico ispirato ai luoghi descritti nei suoi diari, offrendo un percorso che permette di rivivere le esperienze dell'autrice e di apprezzare le bellezze del sud Italia attraverso i suoi occhi.This thesis explores the life and works of Maria Brandon Albini, an Italian writer who became a naturalized French citizen, known for her travel diaries. It begins with a detailed overview of her life, examining the key events and the historical-cultural context in which she lived. Subsequently, the thesis examines her two books translated into Italian, "Calabria" and "Viaggio nel Salento," analyzing the content and style of the works to understand how the author depicts the regions of Southern Italy. Finally, the thesis reflects on travel literature and proposes a tourist itinerary inspired by the places described in her diaries, offering a route that allows readers to relive the author's experiences and appreciate the beauty of Southern Italy through her eyes
Capaci di scegliere? Autonomia e diritti delle persone anziane
No full textIn the essay, the Author dwells on some of the qualifying aspects of the legal relevance of the capacity to choose for the elderly. To this end, against every «ageist narrative», she moves from the assumption that elderly’s lives have equal dignity, if compared to those of the other society’s
members. It follows that the elderly’s full ownership of fundamental rights should also be recognized, and the effectiveness of their rights ensured
I soggiorni duinesi di Rainer Maria Rilke: per una topografia della memoria tra storia e immaginazione
No full textBetween 1910 and 1914 Rainer Maria Rilke spent several months in the Duino Castle as guest of Marie von Thurn und Taxis. His sojourns in the ancient fortress overlooking the Gulf of Triest inspired not only the poetry masterpiece which owes its name to that place, the Duino Elegies, but also other literary projects, such as The Life of the Virgin Mary, some translations of Italian texts and a series of single poems. The Duino experience proved significant for the Prague author from a personal point of view as well: this period was characterized by relevant encounters, fruitful intellectual exchanges, evocative memories and inspiring landscapes, but also by silence, concealment and solitude. Examining both Rilke’s and Marie von Thurn und Taxis’ papers as well as documents of local history, the present article aims at outlining Rilke’s relationship to Duino by tracing the places and identifying the people that marked, in different ways, the poet’s experience on the Adriatic coast of the Habsburg Empire. Real sites which are nowadays only partly recognizable (like the Duino Castle itself and the path on the cliffs along the sea), people present there at Rilke’s time and people belonging to the memory of his host’s family history come to recreate a sort of virtual socio-geographical map including biographical and topographical data, personal memories and artistically transfigured experiences. These elements will prove to be closely connected with the author’s literary production and his poetical considerations of those years and will therefore contribute to the interpretation of a crucial artistic phase in Rilke’s oeuvre
Da Simmel a Foucault, cercando una teoria per la politica migratoria dell'UE
No full textMore than a step forward in a research path, this essay signals the achievement of a limitation of its author. The starting point is the reconstruction of the theoretical path developed in the search for a theoretical framework of political thought adequate to understand and frame the developments of EU policies toward migrants. From Simmel's concept of the foreigner to Arendt’s conscious pariahs to Fanon to Foucault's biopolitics,
declined in different approaches, none seems able to give theoretical framework to the relentless erasure of migrants that the EU is pursuing
To be or not to be...disabled. Identità in bilico tra lotta per il riconoscimento e post-identity problem
No full textSince the Sixties, the disability rights movement has struggled for the recognition of the disabled specificity, aiming at liberating the disabled individuals from a paternalistic and victimizing tradition. The «social model», coined in the Eighties by the critical academic perspective called disability studies to identify and undermine the widespread mechanisms of domination against persons with disabilities, has been considered for a long time its theoretical expression. In her essay, the Author questions the compatibility between the «social model» and the disability identity politics, introducing some of the latest attempts to overcome what could be addressed as the «identity problem» of persons with disabilities
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